S.t.a.l.k.e.r.

[Alan00000]

Haha it happened eb games gave it to me early lol ... anyways I'm so happy i installed the game went to settings set everything to max start the game the intro was Awsome then when i actually get into the game i see no textures no people no trees no nothing!!! All i can see is my HUD, Crosshair, mini map,skybox, and sounds I need help asap i wanna play i didnt wait for nothing. Should i change drivers??? I have the latest nvidia ones.

I'll post some screenshots to show you guys what i mean.

[CyberPitz]

Are you sure you didn't download it, since it was leaked? ;)

[Xoldier]

I heard the game has problems with the 8800 series, seems like which you have right now.:(

[Alan00000]

Are you sure you didn't download it, since it was leaked? ;)

Nah i was having the same problems with the beta when i tried that .

[Alan00000]

Are you sure you didn't download it, since it was leaked? ;)

Nah i was having the same problems with the beta when i tried that .

I heard the game has problems with the 8800 series, seems like which you have right now.:(

That cant be why would they release a game that doesnt support the good cards out now.

[Shamrock]

Nah i was having the same problems with the beta when i tried that .



That cant be why would they release a game that doesnt support the good cards out now.
There is a patch coming out on release day. Maybe the fix is in there.

Serves you right for buying it four days early!

[Ren.182]

That cant be why would they release a game that doesnt support the good cards out now.

Quite a few games are having problems with these cards.

[Xoldier]

The card is great but it seems the current drivers for it is making Stalker unplayble for a majority of the users.

[CyberPitz]

Ew. That's no good..wonder why they didn't make the game supportive to those cards right off the bat?

[Alan00000]

This is bs i tell you BS!

[Qonfused]

Maybe if you pay the STALKER/nVidia team a few million, they'll fix it. No dent in your wallet.

[giant384]

WAHAHAHAAHHAH you got the beta version instead!!!! serves you right for getting it one day early lol jk jk
GAH cant wait until tommorow.

[Alan00000]

Yup nothing works, I would advise people with 8800 series cards not to get this game untill theres a fix.

[CptStern]

"oh look I went to EB games and they sold me a pirated copy of the beta!!! boy do I feel gyped!!"


:laugh:

[Alan00000]

"oh look I went to EB games and they sold me a pirated copy of the beta!!! boy do I feel gyped!!"


:laugh:

* Marvin Tikvah Voice*

C'MON

[StardogChampion]

Just decided that I'm going to buy this. Hopefully if it sells well they'll be able to put in some of their other ambitious ideas in Stalker 2.

It's only ?18 from Play also :D.

[giant384]

It's only ?18 from Play also :D.

what do you mean?

[Dalamari]

Maybe if you pay the STALKER/nVidia team a few million, they'll fix it. No dent in your wallet.

qft

[StardogChampion]

what do you mean?
18 pounds. The pound sign turns into a question mark. 18 pounds is 35 dollars.

[Gorgon]

I am running stalker in Vista 64bit with a very crappy nvidia driver and yet I have full settings in stalker @ 1280x1024...... it runs without any problems.... getting 70-90fps with one card because the driver is still in beta can't work with SLI...

Nvidia 100.65

Try this:

turn on the V-syn and reload the game.

I used to get:

V-sync off : 20fps
V-sync On : 70-90 fps :D


and my system is FX55 + 2GB memory + SLI 7800GTX

[giant384]

that vsync setting doesnt really make sense to me.....the fps would be higher then it being on would it not?

[Gorgon]

that vsync setting doesnt really make sense to me.....the fps would be higher then it being on would it not?

thats extacly what I thought at the begining... so I turnd it On to see whats going to happen.... booooom its 70 fps

in other games such as BF2 it runs slower... yeah i agree it depends on how the developers wrote the game maybe.


edit: the game is so sweet and soooo foooking hard to kill an enemy. :P

[giant384]

so these are just the preorders that are sent out from ebgames early? gahhh im so jealous i want to play so bad.

[Trendkill]

thats extacly what I thought at the begining... so I turnd it On to see whats going to happen.... booooom its 70 fps

in other games such as BF2 it runs slower... yeah i agree it depends on how the developers wrote the game maybe.


edit: the game is so sweet and soooo foooking hard to kill an enemy. :P

Whats the command to show fps?

[Alan00000]

Sweet just got it to work the game is Amazing the visuals are aswome aswell, Sound is just best in a game yet especially when using a headset. I just went into my nvidia control panel and turn off AA and BAM it worked, Amazing game I love it! I'll take some screenshots soon!

Gorgon thanks
And yes the Ai is very smart i think its hard to kill these mofo's , they put up a good fight ! The most rewarding part is the looting its great.

I'll be back soon with some screens . :)

[Iced_Eagle]

Ew. That's no good..wonder why they didn't make the game supportive to those cards right off the bat?

Because the game's been delayed for so many years, that they could care less. They just want to get it out the frickin door.

Can't wait for patch cause it runs really shitty right now for me.

[Gargantou]

edit: the game is so sweet and soooo foooking hard to kill an enemy. :PHeh yeah, tell me about it, I am playing on the -HARDEST- difficulty, it's near ****ing impossible at times, such as the machine graveyard battle!

[mortiz]

I just watched the gamespot review. It scored 85% but the main things bringing it down were the graphics looking a bit dated and a few bugs, both of which I could probably live with (and patch's will prob fix the bugs). They said the gameplay ranks up there with Deus Ex so I'll almost certainly pick it up.

[Bad^Hat]

They said the gameplay ranks up there with Deus Ex so I'll almost certainly pick it up.
I hope they meant the depth of skill progression and/or intelligent narrative rather than the gunplay...

[alehm]

I hope they meant the depth of skill progression and/or intelligent narrative rather than the gunplay...

There isn't skill progression in this game- except say for the items you carry around in your inventory system.

There is a lot of text reading in narrative though a lot of main characters have recorded voice. A lot of narrative is in russian (solider chatter during gun battles, or stalker sitting around telling jokes around a fire) but those add to the atmosphere.

This isn't Dues ex or System Shock 2, but if you liked both those games then there is a good chance you will like Stalker.

The game is not without it's bugs. I reccomend this review

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74255

[StardogChampion]

I just watched the gamespot review. It scored 85% but the main things bringing it down were the graphics looking a bit dated and a few bugs, both of which I could probably live with (and patch's will prob fix the bugs). They said the gameplay ranks up there with Deus Ex so I'll almost certainly pick it up.
Is it just me or did he not even mention the inventory system or anything in that review?

[Stigmata]

Is it just me or is this game not actually being sold in stores yet?

[CptStern]

Is it just me or is this game not actually being sold in stores yet?

nope not yet ..at least not in our area ..the peeps in this thread who have the game did the whole "arrrr matey" routine ..baby jesus will smite their asses so no worries


stinking future shop nerdly teen sales guy said they might not have it till thursday/friday

[Stigmata]

****.

I'm really thinking of pirating it until then. I'll call EB first, but still.

[BHC]

I'm really goddamn pissed, both my EB and Bestbuy didn't have it yet :| The EB Games up near me rarely even gets PC games and when they do they get about 5 for preorders. fack them all to hell, I wont accept this kind of shens much longer D:

[Stigmata]

If they don't have it by tomorrow (since technically today is the ship date), yell at the manager :P

[CR0M]

The in-store date has been stated as the 23rd for ages, and as friday has always been the weekday that new games are on the shelves, there is no reason to think that it will be in the shops any earlier. At least in the uk, anyway.

Until then I will continue with MTW2, ending my failed sicily campaign with a kamikazi run for jerusalem.

[CptStern]

The in-store date has been stated as the 23rd for ages, and as friday has always been the weekday that new games are on the shelves, there is no reason to think that it will be in the shops any earlier. At least in the uk, anyway.

Until then I will continue with MTW2, ending my failed sicily campaign with a kamikazi run for jerusalem.

in canada it's always tuesdays ..and the release date was supposed to be the 20th which is the same for the US

[CR0M]

You crazy canucks with your 8 day weeks and 24 hour bowl-a-ramas

[Trendkill]

the gamestop near me said they'll have them tomorrow.

[Stigmata]

You crazy canucks with your 8 day weeks and 24 hour bowl-a-ramas:laugh:

anyway I should have Stalker within the next 8 hours. A winrar is me \o/

[<RJMC>]

anyone know somethign about the requirements?

[Stigmata]

Minimum:
P4 2GHz or AthlonXP 2000+
512MB RAM
128MB video card - GeForce5700/Radeon9600

Recommended:
Core2Duo E6400 / Athlon64 X2 4200+
1GB+ RAM
256MB Video card - GeForce7900/RadeonX1850

[<RJMC>]

I hav a geforce 5500 is that anough?

[giant384]

I hav a geforce 5500 is that anough?

basically its a 5200 but oced. also it wont work great because it lacks shader.

[Stigmata]

It's probably not enough :(

[ailevation]

Pre-ordered mine today, picking it up tomorrow, YAY!

[<RJMC>]

basically its a 5200 but oced. also it wont work great because it lacks shader.

but it will run decent?

[Stigmata]

but it will run decent?Honestly, it might not run at all.

BTW, Stalker is really awesome. The gunplay is a bit stiff, but everything else is really immersive and pretty and just all-around cool.

[Russian Mafia]

I've been enjoying the game for about a day now, it really is a unique experience.

[Gargantou]

I have to sai AI really stinks in indoors combat, look at how much I owned it at highest difficulty(I always start my games at hardest difficulty), with just a AK-74M and the first shotgun you get!

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/5835/sskevin032007190727l07mnb6.jpg
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7471/sskevin032007190731l07mmu5.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1126/sskevin032007190735l07mir6.jpg
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/8807/sskevin032007190741l07mbf9.jpg

[Somefool]

I have to sai AI really stinks in indoors combat, look at how much I owned it at highest difficulty(I always start my games at hardest difficulty), with just a AK-74M and the first shotgun you get!

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/5835/sskevin032007190727l07mnb6.jpg
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7471/sskevin032007190731l07mmu5.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1126/sskevin032007190735l07mir6.jpg
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/8807/sskevin032007190741l07mbf9.jpg

Hmmm I'm going to guess that they either bunch up and start spinning like idiots or they shoot each other in the backs.

[Gargantou]

Nope, they don't bunch up, they just don't have any animations for leaning around corners that I have seen yet, atleast not indoors, so basically, if you got a shotgun, all you need to do is find a nice corner, make some noise, wait for NPC to come around corner, BLAM headshot him.

[B-MAn]

How does the stealth work in the game? On the bottom left I can see a sound meter and a light meter however the light meter doesnt seem to do much :(

[Gargantou]

The light meter isn't actually a light meter, but it's rather a meter of how much someone sees you, IF anyone sees you, so it's not like, be in the sun it goes up, even if you are alone, be in the dark it goes down if you are alone, it's all about if someone sees you or not..
Stealthing works in some cases, but it seems to me that sadly, some of the people have mutated to use ESP to alert everyone to your whereabouts and what you've done, like I was at this base Freedom, making a personal raid for some loot, I stealth to a sniper, I look around with binoculars, no-one is watching me, and he is unaware of me, so I creep up to him and backstab him, suddenly I hear all sorts of crazy ukrainian yelling, and BAM, I am being rushed by everyone at the base!

[B-MAn]

Ah I see. Its a little confusing then, not sure how I can use that "how much they can see me bar" to my advantage. I mean if they can see you a little bit them im sure they've seen you enough :S

[Lucid]

I'm dying to play this game...

Looks really fun.

[DEATH eVADER]

Ew. That's no good..wonder why they didn't make the game supportive to those cards right off the bat?

It does work with the cards, just not whilst your running Vista as well.

A similar incident happened when they released the beta drivers for Vista, and graphics performance in games took a nice plunge

[BHC]

Just got my copy, went to Best Buy first and they told me nobody in wisconsin had it because of a shipping error, I walk two stores down to the EB and they have it in stock. Effin liars!

/installing

[<RJMC>]

Honestly, it might not run at all.

BTW, Stalker is really awesome. The gunplay is a bit stiff, but everything else is really immersive and pretty and just all-around cool.

well fear could run,not perfect but good enough,isnt that a good sign?

[giant384]

well fear could run,not perfect but good enough,isnt that a good sign?

Stalker might require different shaders then fear does. Just don't bother running it on there. I haven't heard of anyone trying to run it on there yet but i wouldn't even try. Even if it did run, it would look like crap and you would get extremely low fps.

[mgpetkos]

after playing for a few hours, i am loving every minute of this game.

it's definitely not for everyone, but it's safe to say if you loved both operation flashpoint and fallout, you'll have a blast. it's not an easy game, and you spend most of the early going running for your life when outnumbered (which happens quite a bit). the guns are not pinpoint accurate (like in op:f), which makes for a tough fight every time. enemy ai is brilliant outdoors, a mixed bag indoors, but you NEVER feel comfortable when under fire.

fwiw, my specs: p4 3ghz, 2gig ram, ati x800xt pe. i'm running at 1024*768, a balance of medium-high to max qualities, and do ok framerate-wise, usually around 30, but i get drops from time to time. turning on "static lighting" gives a huge fps boost, but completely kills the atmosphere. you need to play this game with full dynamic lighting to get the full effect. there's nothing like being circled by a group of bandits in a forest in the dark of night, struggling to see throught the rain with only intermittent lighting flashes illuminating everyone's positions.

[BHC]

Well I got started and all I can say is, although the game is gorgeous, has some great role-playing elements, and has an incredible sense of scale and open-endedness - I just can't really seem to find the fun. Combat is stale, slippery and on several occasions I noticed AI blatantly turn his back on me while I was firing at them. Also notable and slightly barf worthy is the popping LOD, as I sprint from location to location the transition from low to high poly models completely removes me from the immersive, otherwise beautiful environments.

I hate to say it but I'm having a bit of buyers remorse, I've been spoiled by games such as Oblivion where I don't have to literally stop the game to select dialog options. The game will undoubtably be a sleeper hit with a cult following, but from the look (and feel) of things so far, that's all it will be. I just wish I could get into it more, but I can honestly say if I'm not engrossed now, I probably never will be, and wasted a good chunk of money.

[<RJMC>]

Stalker might require different shaders then fear does. Just don't bother running it on there. I haven't heard of anyone trying to run it on there yet but i wouldn't even try. Even if it did run, it would look like crap and you would get extremely low fps.

so I should forget it?

[BHC]

Is anyone else underwhelmed?

[Iced_Eagle]

http://board.oblivion-lost.de/showthread.php?t=8013

Stalker gives nod to Half-Life :) Read the first two entries.

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

is the game still filled with broken english and text that sounds like it was written by 5-year-olds? ^^^case in point.

I remember seeing a mission briefing from some beta shots and it really made me cringe...nothing to pull you out of an immersive game but having retarded mission briefings.

[Stigmata]

The localization is actually pretty good. Only a couple poor translations so far.

[xcellerate]

even on newbie or whatever, it's still sort of hard. I guess I'm just not used to this style of fighting, but you really can't "charge!" anybody...

[sinkoman]

I'm getting a filling done tomorrow. Hopefully they'll have it then.

Might shed some happiness on the day :P

[Gargantou]

I'm really enjoying the game, my main gripe is that the AI seems to be cheating, in terms of having infinite ammo, atleast on the hardest difficulty, yet when you kill it, it has only like 4 bullets in its inventory.

[Max35]

I wonder if this will run decently on my setup, I mean I do have a p4 3ghz w/ a 6800 256mbs graphics card, but my ram is only 512. I guess I'll find out in a few days. So, is it still as open-ended (or nearly) as originally claimed?

[Jintor]

:(

P2.4Ghz with 1gB RAM, but Geforce FX5700... what do you guys think? I don't think it'll run...

[xcellerate]

I wonder if this will run decently on my setup, I mean I do have a p4 3ghz w/ a 6800 256mbs graphics card, but my ram is only 512. I guess I'll find out in a few days. So, is it still as open-ended (or nearly) as originally claimed?

I have:
2.8GHz P4
1gb pc3200
x800 Pro

and stalker runs fine at 1024x768 on High.

Open ended, no loading screens? There's like 6 six loading screens separating the 'sections' of the map, and when you get to one it'll ask you, "do you want to go to the next section?" and you can answer yes or no...other than that I've only found 1 random loading spot, and a couple glitches. Mainly one that caused an enemy to shoot and kill me while he was behind a wall...that was a one time thing though.

[Gorgon]

loooooooooooooool

http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssnathan032007224832l05pt0.jpg

looooooooooooooooool

[ailevation]

I finally installed... I played up until you finally get the flash drive. First impression, BLAND AS HELL.

[Bakurei]

Runs decently... I guess around 30fps and in firefights 5-20. I got:

AMD 3700+
7900GT
1Gb ddr400

Everything is set to about medium or lower (view distance is the lowest). Everything high I got about 15fps indoors and 1-3 outdoors.

Edit: Besides that the game rocks! Feels a lot like Fallout (even the trade windows etc. look like from Fallout). The AI tends to do stupid decisions, few bugs here and there. After patching and some community mods (AI anyone) this game will rule.

[Jintor]

So with my Fx5700, then... do I have a chance in hell?

[Bakurei]

I don't know. I think my ram is ****ed up. When I start my computer the bios says that my memory is ddr200 and 64bit (and single-channel if I remember correctly). Shouldn't that be ddr400 and 128bit? And I'm running the game on vista, so that could have some effect on the frame rate.

[DEATH eVADER]

So with my Fx5700, then... do I have a chance in hell?

I thought the original intent was to run on a FX5000 series card?


V-sync off : 20fps
V-sync On : 70-90 fps


It sounds like they labelled the settings incorrectly

[CR0M]

As expected the STALKER site and forum has gone tits up under the sheer weight of whines.

Before it died I found evidence that the 5*** series performs better than the 6*** series of cards, which apparently don't like the game at all, resulting in fps lower than a hand cranked charlie chaplin movie. Something to do with outdated optimisation for older cards. Pisser for me.

[Gorgon]

I thought the original intent was to run on a FX5000 series card?



It sounds like they labelled the settings incorrectly

loads of gamers found this option gives a smoother gameplay..

[Kyorisu]

Running fine on my X1600XT. Crashes are rare but do happen.

[Gargantou]

Crashes are rare indeed but I haven't been able to finish the game because of story bugs, but patch will be out tomorrow anyway, for example, I was given the agroblabla research complex mission TWICE, I can't complete it twice so the game doesn't view it as completed :(

[Core407]

Half-life 2 easter egg in Stalker (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssnathan032007224832l05pt0.jpg)

I really wish my computer could run this game, but until then, I'll sit patiently waiting for the PS3 version.

Oh and I hear theres a stalker that looks like Gordon. heh

[Stigmata]

What's the command to check FPS? For some reason I'm no good at eyeballing FPS. But so far it seems that it's running 100% fluidly, minus some loading hiccups due to the engine - A64-X2 4600+, 2GB DDR2-800, RadeonX1900XT 512MB, completely maxed settings.

Also, the game is fun as hell once you get into a "this is like Fallout, you can't run and gun" mindset :D

[Gargantou]

Core407, if you'd actually read the topic, you'd note that it has been linked twice, btw, it's fairly unlikely there will be a PS3 vers, if anything, they've only talked about a possible port to a MS console, and GSC are already busy doing STALKER 2 on the X-Ray Engine v2.0..

And Stigmata, yes the game is fun as hell, but I can't get over the cheating AI :\ It's just such a huge dissappointment considering the entire selling point of stalker was the AI.>_<

[h00dlum]

This game was a mess, tons of weird bugs, crashes like every 10 minutes. And was pretty boring.

[Gargantou]

Weird, runs fine for me, haven't experienced a single crash, the few bugs are mainly issues with missions.:) And it's pretty fun.<3

[Stigmata]

I experienced one crash so far, which was when I changed some video settings mid-game. As for the cheating AI, I don't really mind it. It really makes me feel like I'm the underdog, up against enemies with far more ammunition, firepower, and friends than I do.

Actually... hmm. Come to think of it, I like this game so much that I'm going to go buy it <3

[Kyorisu]

Man optional missions are such a waste of time. The main plot line gives you enough firepower to not warrant any real exploration. Although I got raped turning the first psi emitter off had the wrong ammo on me, fought my way in and out head shotting with a basic pistol.

[Gargantou]

Actually... hmm. Come to think of it, I like this game so much that I'm going to go buy it <3You don't buy most of your games!?
Hope you rot, criminal scum!:flame::p

[Stigmata]

hahaha, I buy most games tbh (same with music) - I just pirated Stalker to see if it was still going to end up good. The only other games I've pirated within the last year or so are Far Cry and Oblivion, both of which I've bought in some capacity :P

[CR0M]

Bubba 'oops i've dropped the soap again can you pick it up please' Hamrammer is keeping a cell warm just for you.

[CrazyHarij]

is the game supposed to be so badly optimised or is my computer that shitty? i can run HL2 (max settings) and doom 3 etc without a problem, yet stalker runs like shit on even the lowest settings.

[CptStern]

try turning off dynamic lighting

[Max35]

For those who are having problems with the game, I've read a few times that performance is especially poor on Windows Vista. Read Gamespy's "Out of the Box" article on it to see what I mean. That's another reason why I'm glad I didn't upgrade to Vista.

Heh, I'm downloading this on Direct2Drive (Yeah, I'm impatient). Too bad I have to go to work in less than an hour. Heh, I've waited a few years, a few hours won't hurt:hmph:

[sinkoman]

For those who are having problems with the game, I've read a few times that performance is especially poor on Windows Vista. Read Gamespy's "Out of the Box" article on it to see what I mean. That's another reason why I'm glad I didn't upgrade to Vista.

Heh, I'm downloading this on Direct2Drive (Yeah, I'm impatient). Too bad I have to go to work in less than an hour. Heh, I've waited a few years, a few hours won't hurt:hmph:

I too am Dling it on D2D.

All the shops here had their shipments delayed, so it'll be awhile before hard copies come about : /

(GHEY)

[Zeus]

I bought it at EBGames today..thankfully it was 40 instead of the usual 50. I like it so far, but I have died so many times. It runs great (Windows XP SP2, Nvidia 6800 256 mb, 2 GB ram) on my comp

[MultiVaC]

Ok, something is really fubar about this game. I have and X800 XL, Athlon 64 3000+, and 2gb of RAM on Windows XP. So I start the game with object dynamic lighting on (static lighting mode is actually the DX8 renderer according to the manual) and as soon as I got outside the game was running at 1 frame per 3 seconds. I was really disappointed, but I turned the game down to the static lighting. I walked around a bit and came to the part where you have to take the medkit off the corpse and give it to the injured guy. At this point I decided to try object dynamic lighting again, just for the heck of it, so I saved the game there, set it to object dynamic lighting and restarted the game. And surprisingly, it looked and ran great, there were dynamic shadows from my flashlight and normal maps on everything! I set most of the other setting at a medium/high level and it was fine, I did some missions and got to the level transition where I quit to go to school. Now I get back and load my game again and it's back to .33 FPS. Anyone else have this problem?

[Fishlore]

I bought it at EBGames today..thankfully it was 40 instead of the usual 50. I like it so far, but I have died so many times. It runs great (Windows XP SP2, Nvidia 6800 256 mb, 2 GB ram) on my comp

I have the same setup. I'm dl'ing it now from d2d. I hope I'm as lucky as you.... Well not the dying part.

[DEATH eVADER]

Before it died I found evidence that the 5*** series performs better than the 6*** series of cards, which apparently don't like the game at all, resulting in fps lower than a hand cranked charlie chaplin movie. Something to do with outdated optimisation for older cards. Pisser for me.

I did have movie codec problems with my old 6600. So much so that games made in the past 2 year have problems, specifically relating to intro, outro, cutscenes, etc.

2 examples of games that show wierd problems; Oblivion and SupCom (two people on GPG forums stated that they had the same card that I once had, and having problems with the intro and mission briefings)

I have a 7600 and plan on buying STALKER tomorrow, so I' tell you how it plays :thumbs:

[destrukt]

I just tried it out for ~20 mins and for the most part I'm liking it so far.

1024x768 / High

Vista (32Bit)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
2x512MB DDR2 667MHZ
Asus 7600GT 256MB PCI-X

Aside from bad load times, it runs flawlessly.. on Vista. :o Going to try Maximum settings later.

[sinkoman]

Holy **** I am pissed. Game doesn't run.

I use any shortcut, or even the XR_3DA.exe that the shortcuts point to, and a little process caled XR_3DA.exe gets started at about 18 megs of pagefile use and just sits as a background process. Game doesn't start.

I'm going to kill somebody.

[Alan00000]

Sucks man !
All of the sudden when i play for about 5 min a get a kick to the desktop saying that there was a bug and if i want to report it ARGGHhh it was fine for the past few days now this. :(

[Stigmata]

I fixeded sinkoman's gaem so he is play now :)

[BHC]

I've had a few crash to desktop bugs myself.. :|

[xcellerate]

is this the buggiest game release EVAR?

(although I haven't had any crashes or low FPS yet *crosses fingers*)

[Lucid]

Exactly how long was this game in the works?

Were they too busy removing shit to actually examine the game thoroughly on different machines to see if it was stable enough? :|

I've read like 30 complaints about the game so far on several websites.

[Asuka]

Just got it myself, ill probably play it after i beat a few games i have lined up here.

[Max35]

Okay, so apparently Stalker needs a larger paging file than what my system automatically configures WTF? I had to set it to 2000 MB for it to work. The game loads extremely slowly. Is this because my ram is 512?

[Sparta]

If you only have 512mb of RAM, than i'd say so.

[Max35]

That's what I thought. But I also heard you aren't supposed to mess with the paging file. To clarify, my fps is (for the most part) fine. It is just the initial loading that takes about 3 minutes or so. Is there anyone else here running this on a 512 machine?

[sinkoman]

Now that I got the game working (needed to replace the run EXE with a cracked one, everything else is legit), I can attest to the need for a HUGE pagefile.

After about 2 hours of playing, my pagefile will fill up and my entire screen will turn into a giant warped texture mess. This being with a gig of ram and a 2 gig pagefile!

This has got to be the worst game release ever. The game is such a horribly mixed bag bug and performance wise. I got lucky that my only bug was just getting the game to run. Once ingame, everything runs all full with dynamic lighting with almost no slowdowns.

But i've read of so many different bugs on assorted forums that it's amazing to me that this was even cleared past beta stage.

Not to mention, the multiplayer is complete rubbish! Me and Stigmata gave it a shot earlier today, and it was impossible to get into a game. Every single server we tried joining gave us an "invalid host" error, including the one he made! Not to mention, there were only 5 or 6 servers online.

EDIT: Holly crap. And now, after working just fine, the game decided to crash and now... It just doesn't work anymore!

Holly ****, i'm about to give up on this god forbidden pile of horse shit. It's a good game, but I can't believe anybody OKed this past ALPHA.

[Jintor]

Hmmm. I might have a look with a 'borrowed' copy... I've already spent all my monies on C&C3 Preorder... mmmm, Kane.

Not even sure if it'll run well. Here's hopin'

[sinkoman]

Hehe. Finally got the game working again (god knows how :/), and got to the sewer bit with the things with tentacle mouths.

HOLY CRAP, they scared the SHIT out of me. And that guy that you meet in the long tube towards the end of the sewer? D:

[Sparta]

I'd really like to get this game but i don't have the time to play it and my PC is completely ****ed thanks to a family that doesn't know how to take care of it :(. Spyware galore and it hasn't been defragmented in two years :(.

[Evo]

Got up this morning and found a missed delivery note from the Royal Mail...think it may be Stalker!

Going to head down pick it up when my mum gets back from work!

[Kyorisu]

This game really hates Nvidia and Vista I can say that much.

[Deadline]

Windows XP, SP2
Pentium 4 3.02 gig
1 gig of pc 3200 RAM
Nvidia 6800 Ultra 256

Runs at about 20 FPS on medium settings with dynamic lighting on objects only, everything else default. Only problem I have is when it rains, i get graphical glitches all over the screen, hard to explain but its still playable.

[Gargantou]

It's been officially declared by devs since yesterday that the game will not support Vista, atleast not as of now.

Btw, new patch should be out today.

[Baal]

The game is running bugless and at a decent framerate for me, sans the pause-loading.

However, I just can't get into the game. I played through one mission while trying to do another, but I can't even find Nimble or whatever (the very first mission). Then I found myself at the end of the level somehow, so I went to level two and did a few missions killing bandits, but then I accidently shot at one of my "Lone" friends and I hadn't saved the game for a while, and now I'm enemies with my friends and mission-givers.

I just don't know what the hell to do. I need a strategy guide or something I think, because as I said, I technically never did the first mission; I couldn't even find the guy I needed to find for the FIRST MISSION. Parking area accross the road? Yea, that helps a lot, since all I saw was woods accross ANY road I could find. You can't give a first mission such vague details like that, when the user has no god damn idea of anything inside the game at this point. Accross the road could mean so many things, and a "parking area" or whatever could also mean any area in which there are cars (there's a lot).

I think the developers were trying to create a game which had very little linearity, but what they created was a retarded flow to the story / missions in my opinion. Some linearity isn't necessarily a bad thing, christ.

Don't get me wrong, I am somewhat enjoying the game so far, but I am still very frustrated in general about the flow this game has. The gameplay doesn't seem all bad though, and the general concept of it is great. I knew it had a great concept from the first time I saw this game four years ago; I still have the E3 2003 videos on my computer

[CptStern]

The game is running bugless and at a decent framerate for me, sans the pause-loading.

However, I just can't get into the game. I played through one mission while trying to do another, but I can't even find Nimble or whatever (the very first mission). Then I found myself at the end of the level somehow, so I went to level two and did a few missions killing bandits, but then I accidently shot at one of my "Lone" friends and I hadn't saved the game for a while, and now I'm enemies with my friends and mission-givers.

I just don't know what the hell to do. I need a strategy guide or something I think, because as I said, I technically never did the first mission; I couldn't even find the guy I needed to find for the FIRST MISSION. Parking area accross the road? Yea, that helps a lot, since all I saw was woods accross ANY road I could find. You can't give a first mission such vague details like that, when the user has no god damn idea of anything inside the game at this point. Accross the road could mean so many things, and a "parking area" or whatever could also mean any area in which there are cars (there's a lot).

bah



here you go, Stalker Walkthrough:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6167656/p-5.html

enjoy

[The Brick]

Just bought it, installing atm. :D

[Baal]

here you go, Stalker Walkthrough:

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6167656/p-5.html

enjoy

I'll just restart the game I guess.

Thank you sir :D

[Core407]

Core407, if you'd actually read the topic, you'd note that it has been linked twice, btw, it's fairly unlikely there will be a PS3 vers, if anything, they've only talked about a possible port to a MS console, and GSC are already busy doing STALKER 2 on the X-Ray Engine v2.0..

And Stigmata, yes the game is fun as hell, but I can't get over the cheating AI :\ It's just such a huge dissappointment considering the entire selling point of stalker was the AI.>_<

Why wouldn't there be a PS3 version.

[Stigmata]

Because GSC doesn't want the inflated costs associated with developing a title for more than one platform, not to mention the fact that there might be too many controls to map to a gamepad successfully, as well as the fact that the PS3 userbase is small, which would lead to a near-zero (if not negative) profit margin on the PS3 release.

[Baal]

god this game makes me appreciate HL2 and other FPS games so much more.

The crashing, random graphical glitches, and CONSTANT pause-loading is just... http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-argh.gif

[Gargantou]

Funny how I don't get any of those three.:)

[Kyorisu]

I just don't know what the hell to do. I need a strategy guide or something I think, because as I said, I technically never did the first mission; I couldn't even find the guy I needed to find for the FIRST MISSION. Parking area accross the road? Yea, that helps a lot, since all I saw was woods accross ANY road I could find. You can't give a first mission such vague details like that, when the user has no god damn idea of anything inside the game at this point. Accross the road could mean so many things, and a "parking area" or whatever could also mean any area in which there are cars (there's a lot).


Did you just skip the part where you are TOLD how to use the PDA and your MAP?

btw my game has started crashing badly as of today, no system changes at all it just started to crash like crazy after a few minutes of play.

[xcellerate]

I just don't know what the hell to do. I need a strategy guide or something I think, because as I said, I technically never did the first mission; I couldn't even find the guy I needed to find for the FIRST MISSION. Parking area accross the road? Yea, that helps a lot, since all I saw was woods accross ANY road I could find. You can't give a first mission such vague details like that, when the user has no god damn idea of anything inside the game at this point. Accross the road could mean so many things, and a "parking area" or whatever could also mean any area in which there are cars (there's a lot).

...if you open the PDA there's a list of missions, and you click off the right of one of them, and it'll set a marker on your map. Then on your mini map there will be arrow telling you where to go, and how many meters it is to that place. Then when you get close the thing will glow green on your mini map...where's the confusion?

[CptStern]

question ...why does the military want me dead? as soon as they see me they open fire ..is this normal? I've only completed the first mission. plus one side mission ..I've only killed bandits up to this point so why do they want me dead? damn them all to hell

[Baal]

Did you just skip the part where you are TOLD how to use the PDA and your MAP?

btw my game has started crashing badly as of today, no system changes at all it just started to crash like crazy after a few minutes of play.

Yea I think I did. My problem was I made a mistake; I said "no I don't want to help you" by accident to finding Nimble and thus screwed me completely. After I selected that I did want to help, everything went fine.

The glitches / pause-loading / slowdown is still...:hmph:

[Baal]

question ...why does the military want me dead? as soon as they see me they open fire ..is this normal? I've only completed the first mission. plus one side mission ..I've only killed bandits up to this point so why do they want me dead? damn them all to hell

Me too. Have you gone through the sewers yet? I came up through the sewers just a few minutes ago after battling them all throughout the sewers (they're tough) and I don't know how I'm going to get past this part. I'm taking a break for food now.

[DeusExMachina]

question ...why does the military want me dead? as soon as they see me they open fire ..is this normal? I've only completed the first mission. plus one side mission ..I've only killed bandits up to this point so why do they want me dead? damn them all to hell

Stalkers aren't legally supposed to be in the Zone.

[sinkoman]

question ...why does the military want me dead? as soon as they see me they open fire ..is this normal? I've only completed the first mission. plus one side mission ..I've only killed bandits up to this point so why do they want me dead? damn them all to hell

It's normal.

If you're anywhere that isn't the Cordon, then you're on restricted grounds. Have you bribed the guards yet to go and find Strelok?

[Kyorisu]

Oh god dammit I figured I wouldn't bother with half of those side quests and just witnessed the crappy ending. Back trail my way from the power plant to find those damn docs and decoder thingo. Bah

Meanwhile all the fireworks going on whilst entering the plant where awesome.

[Evo]

I killed all the Army guys at the train bridge :D

Got the special edition, not looked at the Bonus DVD yet, maybe soon.

Had no problems yet, but only played about an hour!

[Kyorisu]

So this game has like 7 endings, watching a few on youtube as I don't have a save feasible of getting two of them.

[CR0M]

Gotta say this game is a surprise for me, was expecting a buggy, nasty looking pile of poo, but i'm quite impressed. No bugs or crashes yet and it's just starting to get dark, the only gripe really is the impossible framerate hit from dynamic lighting. 70+ fps on static lighting, 3 fps on dynamic objects? something not quite right there. Patch pls k thx.

[The Brick]

Damn meeting my first mutant scared me shitless.. I was exploring an underground facility really slowly. Flashlight on and inching my way forward and around corners. I was expecting a mutant to be around somewhere, because the atmosphere was really creepy. When I got near the artifact on a ledge it happened. I picked up the artifact, heard a mild rowr, heard footsteps approaching me, but I saw nothing! Then FLASH it appeared in front of me, slashing my face. In panic I emptied my AKm clip into him, killing him with the last bullet. My heart pounding, catching my breath... Damn was I scared.

Love it.





Btw, this fix (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=122040) worked greatly for me. Maxed out settings easily.

[jimbo118]

got it today too. after tweaking settings for quite awhile i settled with the games autodetect of high for my rig, this meant static lighting, it ran really well so i decided i'd try dynamic lighting on objects only and reduced texture to medium(half way on the slider), performance hit was pretty severe but i played on...

i was reading the bbc's ceefax/teletext gamepage which had a feature on stalker, i'd haveto agree with the editor of the page, the game lacks ''polish'', is ''rough'' and ''awkward'' but it really has an amazing atmosphere, its like nothing i've really experienced, the world feels alive, feels real...

no ctds/bugs as of yet :)



Btw, this fix (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=122040) worked greatly for me. Maxed out settings easily.

i used this too but it just dropped the settings to directx8, static lighting, no shadows, did i miss something or is the tweak just that?

[TCfromBN]

So, should I wait to get it?

[Gargantou]

I'd have to say yes tbh, wait for the first two-three patches.

[Dalamari]

I've only seen 3 of the 5 false endings, anyone got a link to all 5? (I've seen the true endings)

[CrazyHarij]

ok, ive started playing it on minimum settings and this bug totally ruined it for me, basically i've managed to go really deep into the zone, kill stuff, make money (2000 RU from one single mission for instance) all on the basic armor i started with and some SMGs i stole, and now when i try to go back to Cordon (because i realise it's way too hard for me running closer to the city with the bar etc) i can't go back because there's too much ****ing radiation, which wasn't there when i first got there! wtf.....

[sinkoman]

K, so I have both the SMG that looks like an MP5, and the souped up AKM that you find in Streloks hideout (the one with the upped firing rate).

Can't tell which to sell just now. The AKM has all higher stats except for handling, which is true. I can fire in larger bursts with the MP5 without losing as much accuracy (even though its overall accuracy rating is WAY lower than the AKM).

Been carrying around both lately, but feel like I should ditch one, as they both kinda do the same thing. Can't decide which though :(

[Jintor]

Bah, considering that the Hitman: Blood Money and the Just Cause demos are horribly laggy on my system, even at lowest settings... -_-

[Lucid]

I saw a box at the store the other day, and it says the game takes TEN GIGS?!
What the ****?

It doesn't even look like, from what I've read so far, that it has that much to offer.
Shit, Oblivion's a bigger game in terms of scale and it's only 4 gigs.

Something doesn't seem right to me.

[Warbie]

So, is this good then guys?

[sinkoman]

I saw a box at the store the other day, and it says the game takes TEN GIGS?!
What the ****?

It doesn't even look like, from what I've read so far, that it has that much to offer.
Shit, Oblivion's a bigger game in terms of scale and it's only 4 gigs.

Something doesn't seem right to me.

It's only about 5 gigs installed.

I spose it uses the other 5 for unpacking files or something : /

@ Warbie: Yeah, the firefights are really tense. Great game, just seems to get buggy when it wants to.

[The Brick]

is it just me or is hitting incredibly impossible?

Watch these (just made em). Wait for the file info to load and click the download link. Ignore the preview.

http://www.4shared.com/file/12821960/7d6bb9a3/spraynogood2.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/12821425/61b51b7b/burstingneither1.html

[Laivasse]

is it just me or is hitting incredibly impossible?

Watch these (just made em). Wait for the file info to load and click the download link. Ignore the preview.

http://www.4shared.com/file/12821960/7d6bb9a3/spraynogood2.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/12821425/61b51b7b/burstingneither1.html
Whoa. I'm all for realistic gun spray but that seems a bit extreme.

[oik]

is it just me or is hitting incredibly impossible?

Watch these (just made em). Wait for the file info to load and click the download link. Ignore the preview.

http://www.4shared.com/file/12821960/7d6bb9a3/spraynogood2.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/12821425/61b51b7b/burstingneither1.html

I find it easy to hit people,the ony reason that npc dident die is because hes part of the military,they have very strong armor,but you DID hit him.
Over all,I found the gun play to be realistic,it just takes awhile to lean how to use the guns properly and to use cover properly.flanking your enemy is a must in this game.

[ktimekiller]

body armor in this game is a little too tough, you have to get head shots, or it takes nearly a clip

[Lucid]

Alrighty, I caved in and just went back to the store and bought it.
Installing right now.

Has the patch been released yet?

[DEATH eVADER]

I like the fact that GSC have decided to include realistic ballistic, it has just made it harder for bandits to actually hit me, even if I am outnumbered 10:1 :D

[xcellerate]

Well...I noticed some zombie's would walk up walls (like the outside of the building) when I was on the roof...

and the f****** walk through gave away the ending without any warning!! It was in the f*****ing caption to a picture!

[Baal]

Does anyone know anything about the grounds North of The Bar?

I decided to venture up there and received a mission from The Duty which proved to be extremely tough. I'm not quite sure if it was just because my armor was too weak for it or not. It's more than likely a mission which is designed to for someone who is further in the game than I currently am (just arrived at The Bar for the first time).

By the way, that "fix thread" that is on here does work, but I only changed the render setting and it completely fixed any problems I was having. Game runs fine now on medium-ish settings. I might try higher settings soon though.

[Asuka]

Going to be playing this soon. Just beat Metal Gear Solid 3 and playing God of War 2. Soon as i beat that and Supreme commander.

[Lucid]

Installed, played for a few minutes.

God damn this game really is atmospheric.
The sound of wind sweeping through the zone, I almost felt the air.
The thunder and lightening lighting up the rookie encampment, the sound of stalkers talking amongst themselves or strumming on their guitar.
The rain pattering against the ground.

Great stuff, only gripe so far is that the game is a huge memory whore... jesus. D:

[DEATH eVADER]

I could do with smoother framerates, but the game is playable anyway so thats not really a priority. They need to sort out that bug with the rain, half of the time it looks like razor blades are cutting through my screen.

Has anyone seen a blowout yet?

Has the supposed release day patch been...er, released?

[Lucid]

Blowouts are endgame things apparently, there's only like 2 or 3 in the whole game and they're all scripted sequences.

Do not click this unless you want to have the effect spoiled. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4piKEI95-Nc)

[TCfromBN]

Does this game really have problems with the 8800s? I'm thinking about going out to get it today, I really need a new game to play...

[Sebastian]

Is there a way to pick stuff in this game a la half life 2? I want to use the gas cans to set up a trap for the bandits, but there seems to be no way to do it.

[navyseal2004]

K, so I have both the SMG that looks like an MP5, and the souped up AKM that you find in Streloks hideout (the one with the upped firing rate).

Can't tell which to sell just now. The AKM has all higher stats except for handling, which is true. I can fire in larger bursts with the MP5 without losing as much accuracy (even though its overall accuracy rating is WAY lower than the AKM).

Been carrying around both lately, but feel like I should ditch one, as they both kinda do the same thing. Can't decide which though :(


Ditch the MP5 :)

[Dalamari]

Ditch the MP5 :)

qft

handling doesn't really mean anything if you just use iron sights

[DEATH eVADER]

Ditch the MP5 :)

Empty the chamber, then ditch it

[sinkoman]

Blowouts are endgame things apparently, there's only like 2 or 3 in the whole game and they're all scripted sequences.

Do not click this unless you want to have the effect spoiled. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4piKEI95-Nc)

WTF is a blowout?

Want to know what one is without getting the game spoiled, so not clicking the link :(

[sinkoman]

Ditch the MP5 :)

K, i'll ditch the MP5 after emptying it out as somebody said.

I picked up that pistol that runs off of MP5 ammo, so no sense ditching the gun and the ammo :P

Does this game really have problems with the 8800s? I'm thinking about going out to get it today, I really need a new game to play...

I have an 8800 gts, and it runs like butter.

EDIT: OH NOES :(

[Phantom118]

Im loving stalker so far... lol ...They accually put Gordan Freeman in the game, He's in a tunnle in Wild Territory(Next to the BAR), And its accually him because you pick up his pda and Read about Black Mesa, City 17 and gordan selling his crowbar for food lol.. I thought it was pretty cool... I took a scereenshot but i cant figure out where the game saves the pictures.. other than that i would post some pics.

[Sebastian]

Is there a way to pick stuff in this game a la half life 2? I want to use the gas cans to set up a trap for the bandits, but there seems to be no way to do it.

[sinkoman]

Im loving stalker so far... lol ...They accually put Gordan Freeman in the game, He's in a tunnle in Wild Territory(Next to the BAR), And its accually him because you pick up his pda and Read about Black Mesa, City 17 and gordan selling his crowbar for food lol.. I thought it was pretty cool... I took a scereenshot but i cant figure out where the game saves the pictures.. other than that i would post some pics.

Read back a few pages, been posted 3 times : /

Is there a way to pick stuff in this game a la half life 2? I want to use the gas cans to set up a trap for the bandits, but there seems to be no way to do it.

no :(

[theotherguy]

so guys, I'm wondering if I should get this. Is it worth it?

[Alan00000]

so guys, I'm wondering if I should get this. Is it worth it?

It is worth it !

The game crashes like crazy for me when i try to play , anyone else have this?

[Dalamari]

It's only 10 hours long and the MP is boring, it's not worth it

download it

[MiccyNarc]

The saved games on mine don't work..auto and quick saves don't load.


Once I got the game running smoothly, it's a blast.

[Cole]

Awesome game. Runs perfect on my computer on High with fully dynamic lighting. Great game.

[ktimekiller]

my god, this game starts to get very very disturbing, i think its even worse than fear ><

[Alan00000]

So anyone else when playing stalker the game crashes to desktop with bugs.

[Russian Mafia]

The game has only crashed to desktop only once for me.

[Max35]

my god, this game starts to get very very disturbing, i think its even worse than fear ><


Well, considering FEAR didn't really scare me at all, that's not saying much. But Stalker does have a much more disturbing atmosphere--I quite like it!

[Adabiviak]

Report: 7 hours into the game non-stop.
No crashes for me. I tweaked the settings to full blast @ 1920x1200 to see what would happen. The rain became very distorted and there were weird shafts of light everywhere (not an anomaly). Restarting the game cleared the problem but my system couldn't dish good frame rates. AA does make a difference - look at Sid the trader's face with it set to low, then turn it up. You can't even see his eyes with no AA. The game has not crashed for me and so far everything works as it should. I saw a guy stuck in a tree in a funny way, but it was some dude stuck in a vortex anomaly (he exploded a few seconds later). The environment is very immersive, with nice day and weather cycles: things are prettier in the sunrise and sunset, you can see nicely in the daytime, and things get sketchy at night. This is how I envision the earth outside of City 17, where mutants (read: aliens) roam around and generally cause havoc.

It really needs an in-depth help guide. There's a lot of information going on with your inventory, maps, PDA, etc., that don't seem to be well documented in the help. For example, I didn't know you could 'equip' the artifacts and use them until later in the game, and then I didn't know that the radiation-emitting ones would basically drop you with a quickness. Are you supposed to quickly reapply the anti-radiation medicine to use them for a brief time, or just sell them? I didn't know that you could pick body parts from some of the dead animals until I accidentally searched one, then later that they weren't to be used, just sold as a valuable item. I'm just now figuring out that you should tell some people who ask for help 'no', or you'll wind up with a huge list of chores, all of which apparently have timers on them (which will show up on your failed task list if they time out). You should be able to go back and try them later, when you've cleaned up some of your current chores. I thought there would be a couple types of artifacts, but there are actually quite a few, all of which have different properties. This would have been helpful in the help guide, especially how to counter-act the negative effects.

[Cole]

I'm running on 1.5gigs of ram, AMD Athlon 3500+, and a 7800GTX 256meg.

I have everything at highest except for Vsync and anti aliasing. This also includes the full dynamic lighting. Runs without a hitch. Runs much better than Oblivion(or Morrowind on that note).

[3ssence]

So anyone else when playing stalker the game crashes to desktop with bugs.

I find that after a while it freezes up, but then my gpu resets itsellf (ati) and i can continue. Pretty sure it's not an issue with my card though, as every other game runs fine for days on end, and there is no artefacting, so i can only imagine it is the game itself. Irritating, but gpu reset is a great help, however it would be nice if they can sort some of the issues out with a patch. So far though, absolutely loving the game, has an atmosphere like nothing else. Haven't enjoyed a game this much for some time.

[DEATH eVADER]

ATi cards had a knack of crashing to desktop in Morrowind.

But to answer your question, my comp hasn't crashed to desktop yet under the sig settings

[Lucid]

Game hasn't crashed once on me.

All I've seen are AI glitches so far.

[Shakermaker]

I have some money burning in my pocket and I am going into town now. I probably can't resist ....

[cadaver]

How will the amd 2400xp handle this game? Medium setting? High settings? Considering to buy x1950pro(agp) + 1 gig ram. Right now I have the above mentioned cpu + 9500pro + 512 mb ram. Or maybe I just should buy a new computer lol.

[Dalamari]

I can't turn on grass shadows or dynamic lighting, HOW CAN I?

[CR0M]

I find that after a while it freezes up, but then my gpu resets itsellf (ati) and i can continue.

Mine also starts to chug quite often, around every ten minutes or so. This is a common complaint on the stalker forum, and it's not just ati cards - probably a leak or cache bug.

Workaround for gpu's that don't reset: When it starts to slow down to a slideshow, enter the options tab and hit 'use' without changing any settings, then resume the game. Fps are suddenly smooth as silk again.

Or if you know your way around the console, bind vid reset to a key and just hit that when things get slow.

Scarily, the official forum has only just started asking for bug reports from all us happy gamers *cough* beta testers *cough* - looks like the promised release day patch hasn't even begun.

[Cole]

How will the amd 2400xp handle this game? Medium setting? High settings? Considering to buy x1950pro(agp) + 1 gig ram. Right now I have the above mentioned cpu + 9500pro + 512 mb ram. Or maybe I just should buy a new computer lol.
The 1950 is probably to fast for your current CPU. Your CPU would end up being a bottleneck limiting the speed of the GPU significantly.

I'd say new computer.

[DeusExMachina]

I don't think the PDA flash drives I pick up are showing up in my PDA section. I'm already in the Agropram or whatever place and I recently picked up Strelok's flash drive, but it doesn't show up. Last one I got was Fox's PDA. Are dead stalkers PDAs supposed to show up in there too?

[ĐynastҰ]

Bought it yesterday and am forced to play on my laptop atm:

Acer 7250 (i think lol)
Dual Core T2300 @ 1.66ghz
1gb RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

I put it on THE LOWEST settings possible with 800x600 res, ran perfectly smooth (as a test). Everytime, at the start, i run into the little village to talk to the first stalker past the small fire, a little box comes up saying 'please wait', then a big box opens saying theres and engine error etc etc etc, then goes to desktop. Does it EVERY time.

Stuff it, ill wait till i get home to my beast of a PC and see what happens then. And just wait for the patch. Im just disgusted at THQ, i feel like taking it back to the shops, but i can guarantee theyll turn me around by saying i could have copied it and its their policy not to accept PC game returnals...***kers. I actually have a proper problem here.

[ktimekiller]

how come some settings are greyed out? like dalamari says?

[CrazyHarij]

It's insane, it runs so shitty on my comp I have to have everything on practically minimum, it looks crappy, yet it's one of the most immersive and fun games I've played in a loong time. I play through it with my russian friend right now, it's great, he translates lots of stuff people say :) The stalkers by the campfires talk about how they'd like to eat big steaks, joke alot about vodka, the guitarplayers usually say things like "It's sad here without music".

So far I've gotten past the first X18 secret lab mission with stealing the document, and I've gotten a hold of a nice merc suit, lots and lots of medpacs, vodka, antiradiation stuff and sausages and bread :D The stone blood artifacts are insanely good, I've got one that has +400% hp, with 4 others that add +200% hp each.

the psi monsters are mighty annoying and can be scary as **** at times.

[Unfocused]

I've got the cash and the will to buy the game.

But guess what? It doesn't come out here until the 13th of April, FFFF****!

Now guess what I'm going to do? I also hope to have enough willstrength to buy the game afterwards, when it comes out.

On a completely unrelated note, why do most torrents download at about 10-15kB/s for me, even though my max download speed is 64kB/s (512kb/s bandwidth)? Only some stuff like demos, download at max speeds, but then again that's off some torrents hosted by gaming sites. I'm using utorrent.

[OmegaX]

It all depends where you download the torrent from. Public torrents are usually extremely slow.

[3ssence]

I've played about 6-7 hours of the game so far. Had my first venture underground *eek* and have completed a variety of missions. I have managed to get hold of a couple of modified ak74's, one with a silencer, and the other with an increased rate of fire and accuracy. I've also managed to get hold of some decent armour at last, have picked up a stalker suit, much welcome compared to the crappy leather jacket you start the game with !!

I love the way it looks, even if it isn't the most graphically advanced game. However, it really does need some patching, if possible for performance sake. I have an x1800xt and i have to run it at 1152 x 864 with maximum settings (excluding grass shadows) to get an average framerate of 35-40, which isn't exactly what you'd expect. But hey, it doesn't really take away from the appeal of the game too much !

:)

[OmegaX]

Where exactly can you get better armor as opposed to that leather jacket. I'm a pretty good ways into the game and haven't gotten any upgrade yet.

[ktimekiller]

im stuck, where do i find the second access code for the second door?

[CrazyHarij]

Where exactly can you get better armor as opposed to that leather jacket. I'm a pretty good ways into the game and haven't gotten any upgrade yet.

One early mission lets you fetch a "perfected" suit (basically a coat like the bandits wear) very very early in the game, in a cave with some mutant boars just a little further from the first bandit camp you encounter. You can choose not to deliver the coat to get a reward (crap artifact and some cash), use it yourself instead, its great for a start. You get the first proper stalker armor when you first get to the bar in Rostok, which is after the mission in Agropom.

After that there's a duty merc armor dropped by Borov before the secret lab in the dark valley, theres another stalker "monolith" armor inside X18 (which is crappier than the duty merc one because it lacks night vision, it doesnt add any armor protection mor ethan the merc armor does).

im stuck, where do i find the second access code for the second door?

9542, i missed it too, its in the dead scientists PDA

[Sebastian]

This game seriously freaked me the **** out last night.

*****SPOILER ALERT****

You know when you're first finding that guys stash, where you get the fast firing ak? Well, there's that monster before you get there that makes your vision all weird and shit. That was the coolest thing I've seen in a video game in quite some time.

[Russian Mafia]

You mean the one that makes the high pitched sound? If so, yeah that thing scared the shit out of me. :hmph:

[Lucid]

...Is it just me or is there NO quicksave?!

I was wondering what the game was missing and I can't see any option for quicksaving anywhere, this is the type of game that really needs something like that.

[Russian Mafia]

Quicksave is F6.

[DeusExMachina]

You can quicksave, but you can only quickload if the name your computer is registered in doesn't have any spaces.

Yeah.

Also, my game keeps crashing. I'm gonna need someone to come over and fix this.

[Krynn72]

You can quicksave, but you can only quickload if the name your computer is registered in doesn't have any spaces.

Yeah.

Also, my game keeps crashing. I'm gonna need someone to come over and fix this.

Ill do it. Brt.

Im doing that mission where you need to get in the lab, but I am stuck.


***Spoiler***
I need to get the key so I can unlock the door to the secret lab, but I cant find it, I am in the base where it says to go, but when I am directly on the map note on my mini map im just standing in a room with nothing to grab. Down stairs is just the bathroom, and up stairs is the roof. I cant find it. I already talked to the guy who was locked up... but this is where i think i may have broke the game. When I released him, i jumped inside the cell to see if anything was in there, and then he stopped right in the entrance so I couldnt leave. I thought I had talked to him enough and he wouldnt move so I shot him in the head. Now that i cant find the key, im thinking i needed to talk to him again. Is he the one who gives you the key?

[Russian Mafia]

The main bandit has the key, when I killed him his body disappeared, but I found his invisible corpse and got the key.

[ktimekiller]

One early mission lets you fetch a "perfected" suit (basically a coat like the bandits wear) very very early in the game, in a cave with some mutant boars just a little further from the first bandit camp you encounter. You can choose not to deliver the coat to get a reward (crap artifact and some cash), use it yourself instead, its great for a start. You get the first proper stalker armor when you first get to the bar in Rostok, which is after the mission in Agropom.

After that there's a duty merc armor dropped by Borov before the secret lab in the dark valley, theres another stalker "monolith" armor inside X18 (which is crappier than the duty merc one because it lacks night vision, it doesnt add any armor protection mor ethan the merc armor does).



9542, i missed it too, its in the dead scientists PDA

for some reason, it doesnt work for me. Like the door is banging, and i cant open it up with that code, do i need to trigger a event and the door stops banging or something?

[Lucid]

I've got the cash and the will to buy the game.

But guess what? It doesn't come out here until the 13th of April, FFFF****!

Now guess what I'm going to do? I also hope to have enough willstrength to buy the game afterwards, when it comes out.

On a completely unrelated note, why do most torrents download at about 10-15kB/s for me, even though my max download speed is 64kB/s (512kb/s bandwidth)? Only some stuff like demos, download at max speeds, but then again that's off some torrents hosted by gaming sites. I'm using utorrent.

Try lowering your upload speed to about 10 or so, I find that that usually helps my downloads go alot faster.

[Beerdude26]

OMG MUST UPGRADE COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS D:

[DEATH eVADER]

There must be a 1001 reasons to make a Mod Inspired by STALKER using cryENGINE 2.0

[jondy]

OMG MUST UPGRADE COMPUTER TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS D:

literally YES... I'm tempted to run out and by a 1900XT tomorrow with my wages... stupid food.

[The Brick]

I'd recommend the 8800gts 320mb, because I think my x1950XT has too little vram (256mb).

[BigBoss7556]

I'm wondering, where can I find a duty faction suit. Because I need something that can protect me from radiation in order to go into Prypiat(I think that's how you spell it). What other suit could protect me into that area?

[Krynn72]

It's only 10 hours long and the MP is boring, it's not worth it

download it

Damn man. Did you just run through the whole thing? Ive spent that much time on it already, and I havent even done the second mission on the main quest!

[jimbo118]

Damn man. Did you just run through the whole thing? Ive spent that much time on it already, and I havent even done the second mission on the main quest!

yeah i'm still going around cordon atm, must have played atleast 4 to 5 hours if not more, i just met up with fox is it, now i haveto meet his brother but stayed in cordon to explore, for some reason the time cycle seems to be slower or maybe its just me, walking around at night can be extremely scary, the sounds, thunder and lighting...

i love how the world feels alive, i went back to the first factory at night to notice more dead bandits, here i found an mp5, it had also been reoccupied by more bandits in the area where you rescue nimble, the atmosphere of this part was outstanding, i used the ladder to go to the top of the building and silently took out a lone patrolling bandit, i then moved into the second room which containied the stairs leading down.

i wasnt sure how many bandits were there but knew there was atleast 1 because of the sounds of a guitar. i slowly moved to the stairs and peaked down, 2 bandits, popped the guy playing the guitar with a quick shot to the head, then unloaded into the other guy...

i headed back to the first camp to get some rewards, it was still night and it was pouring down, thunder and lighting, many new stalkers had taken up sleeping quarters in the abandoned houses, i woke them up to try and attain some more info but they had none, i went into to see sid to do some trading and then headed back out into the storm...

[mgpetkos]

Damn man. Did you just run through the whole thing? Ive spent that much time on it already, and I havent even done the second mission on the main quest!

yah, i've been playing for about 10-12 hours now, and have only done a few quests around the duty bar area (spoiler-proof posting ftw).

as with most pc games nowadays, 2G ram goes a LONG way. to all those with 512MB to 1G of ram, seriously consider picking up some ram before doing any other upgrades. you'll probably be pleasantly surprised with the performance boost you get.

[Dalamari]

I ran right through to get 10 hours, skipped tons of enemies, but I beat it

[Lucid]

yeah i'm still going around cordon atm, must have played atleast 4 to 5 hours if not more, i just met up with fox is it, now i haveto meet his brother but stayed in cordon to explore, for some reason the time cycle seems to be slower or maybe its just me, walking around at night can be extremely scary, the sounds, thunder and lighting...

i love how the world feels alive, i went back to the first factory at night to notice more dead bandits, here i found an mp5, it had also been reoccupied by more bandits in the area where you rescue nimble, the atmosphere of this part was outstanding, i used the ladder to go to the top of the building and silently took out a lone patrolling bandit, i then moved into the second room which containied the stairs leading down.

i wasnt sure how many bandits were there but knew there was atleast 1 because of the sounds of a guitar. i slowly moved to the stairs and peaked down, 2 bandits, popped the guy playing the guitar with a quick shot to the head, then unloaded into the other guy...

i headed back to the first camp to get some rewards, it was still night and it was pouring down, thunder and lighting, many new stalkers had taken up sleeping quarters in the abandoned houses, i woke them up to try and attain some more info but they had none, i went into to see sid to do some trading and then headed back out into the storm...

Awesome little story.

I haven't been able to get into the game THAT much as I haven't the time to really play games that much anymore.

Oh well, April vacation is just around the corner! :D

[Krynn72]

I ran right through to get 10 hours, skipped tons of enemies, but I beat it

Then you didnt really experience the game as it should have been, and should be telling people not to buy it. :rolleyes:

[MiccyNarc]

I've spent 10 hours on this game already and just got into dark valley.


For those that did the catacombs mission by the research facility, how many creepy monsters are in there? And where can I get night vision goggles so I don't have to rely on a torch?

[Fishlore]

My game runs fine, but can anyone explain why these graphical problems are happening or what they are called? I'm sure it's related to my graphics card and would love to know what I could do to get rid of them. It's really making the iron sites difficult to use.

Thanks.

[BHC]

Any way to fix the popping geometry? (shrubbery just flickers into existence), it looks really gross.

[Gunner]

My game runs fine, but can anyone explain why these graphical problems are happening or what they are called? I'm sure it's related to my graphics card and would love to know what I could do to get rid of them. It's really making the iron sites difficult to use.

Thanks.

Those are usually the symptoms of an overheating graphic card. Turn up the fan speed on the gpu to 100%, open the case, buy extra fans, etc...

[theotherguy]

:rolleyes: jeez, 109 seeds, 384 peers and still only 20KB/s download, and I'm on fiberoptics!

[Krynn72]

The main bandit has the key, when I killed him his body disappeared, but I found his invisible corpse and got the key.

lol, wtf. I reloaded the game, still couldnt find the guy, so i went outside and killed another group of bandits coming into the compound, and then came back to the room where they guy's body now showed up.

But now im screwed because for some reason the game wont let me load my save.

:rolleyes: jeez, 109 seeds, 384 peers and still only 20KB/s download, and I'm on fiberoptics!
Buy it noob.

[MiccyNarc]

I've spent 10 hours on this game already and just got into dark valley.


For those that did the catacombs mission by the research facility, how many creepy monsters are in there? And where can I get night vision goggles so I don't have to rely on a torch?Any answers for these two? :(

[DEATHMASTER]

millions, and million, and millions, use the torch for a more medieval effect.

[Fliko]

Any answers for these two? :(

Hit N, you probably have Night Vision on your armor

[xcellerate]

so....for no reason what so ever, I was running around and then BAM...it looked like somebody had turned out the lights.

...then I realized the dynamic lighting hasn't been showing correctly for the past 3 days. So now it's like looking at a whole new game..unfortunately it got a LOT harder now, because I used to be able to see perfectly in the dark..now i can't :*)

[CrazyHarij]

For those that did the catacombs mission by the research facility, how many creepy monsters are in there? And where can I get night vision goggles so I don't have to rely on a torch?

not alot of monsters really, a few psi ones that are mainly annoying. Borov that has the key to the research facility in TDV drops a black merc suit that has night vision.

[ktimekiller]

so anyone know exactly where the freaking second code is? i still cant find it, and the code 9542 doesnt work for me, perhaps i must find it myself inorder to treigger a event?

[xcellerate]

I may be mistaken, but isn't the 2nd code on the body of the dead scientist wearing the bright orange suit?

[Kyorisu]

so anyone know exactly where the freaking second code is? i still cant find it, and the code 9542 doesnt work for me, perhaps i must find it myself inorder to treigger a event?

Perhaps because the code is 9524 not 9542

[Fishlore]

Those are usually the symptoms of an overheating graphic card. Turn up the fan speed on the gpu to 100%, open the case, buy extra fans, etc...

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. The card was OC'd out of the box and I'm wondering if they went a little too far. Is the GPU fan controller in BIOS? I'm at my work machine right now and can't check that out. Thanks again.

[Gunner]

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. The card was OC'd out of the box and I'm wondering if they went a little too far. Is the GPU fan controller in BIOS? I'm at my work machine right now and can't check that out. Thanks again.

Well if it's a radeon/ati card you can use ati tray tools:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

It's perfectly safe and it's a great piece of software. You can also underclock the card. Which I'm currently forced to do otherwise I get the same weird artifacts on my screen. It helps you monitor your graphic card's temperature too.

You don't happen to have a x1900 gt do you?

[Fishlore]

Well if it's a radeon/ati card you can use ati tray tools:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

It's perfectly safe and it's a great piece of software. You can also underclock the card. Which I'm currently forced to do otherwise I get the same weird artifacts on my screen. It helps you monitor your graphic card's temperature too.

You don't happen to have a x1900 gt do you?

Thanks again, I appreciate your help. I have an Nvidia 6800 so I'm looking to use RivaTuner or CoolBits. I forget how much they OC'd it out of the box. My google searches took me to the same site you referenced. Looks very helpful.

That's what it looks like I'll have to do. Keep underclocking it bit by bit until I get a normal image back. I might buy a few extra fans too.

Fun game, can't wait to be able to use iron site aiming again.

[jimbo118]

some of the side missions seem to be borked, i got two off sid but i dunno how to complete them so just left them, one involved clearing the area near the tunnel leading under the railway of mutants but there was none o_0, another involved assasinating a stalker who was pretending to be sid but couldnt find him in the area, maybe he already got killed :/

i just went back over to where i first met fox too and noticed his corpse too....

also some of the stashes that you get info on from dead npcs dont show up on your map and some that do i cant find the stash when i get there :/

still enjoying it alot though..

[Gargantou]

jimbo, you are aware you see the location off your side-mission objectives like say people etc in the task map?

[jimbo118]

jimbo, you are aware you see the location off your side-mission objectives like say people etc in the task map?

yeah i know, i went to the areas marked on my map but there was nothing :/

[Krynn72]

Ive had it where the locations show up on my map, and I can find them, but there is nothing in them. Ive also found random stashes scattered around, but never anything in them either.

[CptStern]

the caches always have something in them ..you're not finding the right ones ..the purple icon disappears on your map when you take out all of the contents out of the stash

example: in cordon there's stash near the derailed train bridge on top of the farm building to the left of the bridge in a little snipers perch ..but there's also a stash directly below it with bandages and medkit which leads you to believe you've found the stalker stash but it's actually on top of the roof of the building

[Fishlore]

I always wondered what the purple blips were. So they are stashes of equipment? Very good to know.

[CptStern]

almost always an artifact + supplies

[Fishlore]

Wow that should really help out, thanks, good to know. I sold practically everything I own so I could buy the 6000 ru body armour from Sidrovich after the second mission maybe. Didn't really notice too much of a difference wearing it. Now I'm broke and need to re supply. I'll go on a purple icon hunt. I take it those locations are opened up via PDAs you find?

It's amazing how hard some of the fights are to get into and out of different sections of the map. I'm trying to get to Agropop or whatever and the fight to get there is something else. I even have 150 armor piercing rounds for the baby AK I have and I'm struggling.

[Seppo]

Has anyone finished this game yet? How long did it take? Allthough rushing through the game probably ruins the fun factor, exploring.

[CptStern]

Wow that should really help out, thanks, good to know. I sold practically everything I own so I could buy the 6000 ru body armour from Sidrovich after the second mission maybe. Didn't really notice too much of a difference wearing it. Now I'm broke and need to re supply. I'll go on a purple icon hunt. I take it those locations are opened up via PDAs you find?

sometimes you wont even notice it till it shows up on the map

It's amazing how hard some of the fights are to get into and out of different sections of the map. I'm trying to get to Agropop or whatever and the fight to get there is something else. I even have 150 armor piercing rounds for the baby AK I have and I'm struggling.

I get owned by 3 enemies ..I can barely make it out alive and that's with using good cover/strategy ..they really are unpredictable at times

[Evo]

There are way too many bandits on the road out of cordon..all the time!

And i hate having to go back to Sidrovich all the time after doing some of his side quests D: